Newt Gingrich’s campaign staff quits over the “direction of the campaign”

  Newt Gingrich’s bid to become president got off to a rough start after he ridiculed Paul Ryan’s budget proposal calling it “right wing social engineering” and even though he apologized, and laughingly claimed he was misquoted, his campaign never seemed to recover from the blunder.

  Today it got even worse for the presidential hopeful when he learned that the whole top tier of his campaign committee decided to resign siting a dispute over the “direction of the campaign.” I have made no bones about my opposition to Newt Gingrich based on his moral failings, I had no intention of voting for him even if he won the Republican nomination, so I am losing no sleep over this news. But it does lead me to wonder what exactly happened to Gingrich’s campaign. There is more to this story than we are being led to believe.

  I do not believe there was simply a difference of opinion regarding campaign strategy, and I do not believe his past indiscretions had anything to do with this because his staff knew about his failing when the signed on–I think it is more likely that his staff realized he couldn’t recover from his Paul Ryan budget gaffe and decided to look for a candidate who was more true to conservative ideals–a more electable candidate.

 It is being speculated that Rick Perry is now seriously considering a presidential run, and people are wondering if these staffers are going to join the Perry campaign. It seems as likely a scenario as anything I can come up with. This move could highlight both Gingrich’s unelectability as well as the likelihood of a Perry run for president. As is stated in the link above; these staffers aren’t leaving without knowing where they are going.

  Newt Gingrich claims that this will not effect his candidacy and he is still fully dedicated to running for president, but this certainly throws his already floundering campaign into disarray and it will be interesting to see how he responds to it moving forward. his first test will be at the debate next week, I will be watching with quite a bit of interest.